ATLANTA - Sonny Perdue of Bonaire promised Georgians a referendum on the state flag during a Friday night debate among the three Republican gubernatorial candidates, while Linda Schrenko repeatedly was forced to defend her record of missed meetings as state school superintendent.
Perdue said that while he didn't favor an amendment to restore the old flag, if elected governor he would let Georgians vote on keeping the current flag or adopting a new one.
"I would restore the people's choice and allow us to choose and make the decision ourselves," Perdue said in the debate, which aired on Georgia Public Television.
While there is a great deal of lingering anger in parts of Georgia about the flag - both that the Confederate battle flag was reduced to the size of a pinpoint and how the flag was changed - many political observers don't expect the issue to be a decisive factor in this year's elections.
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Restoring the flag will fail in a referendum and that will be the end of it, IMHO.